[291] Marked MS. N. B. 17.

[292] Wright and Halliwell's Rel. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 180.

[293] It is printed in Hearne's History of Glastonbury, from a MS.
in the Bodleian Library, Ed. _Oxon_, 1722, _Appendix_ x. p. 291.

[294] Bibliothecam optimam cum duobus armillis ex auro purissimo
fabricatis.--_Heming. Chart_, p. 95.

[295] Thomas's Survey, of Worcester Church, 4to. 1736, p. 46. The
Scriptorium of the monastery was situated in the cloisters, and a
Bible in Bennet College, Cambridge, was written therein by a scribe
named Senatus, as we learn from a note printed in Nasmith's
Catalogue, which proves it to have been written during the reign of
Henry II. It is a folio MS. on vellum, and a fine specimen of the
talent of the expert scribe.--See _Nasmith's Catalogus Libr. MSS._,
4to. _Camb._ 1777, p. 31.

[296] Since writing the above, which I gave on the authority of
Green (_Hist. of Worc._ vol. i. p. 79), backed with the older one of
Thomas (_Survey Ch. Worc._ p. 70), I have had the opportunity of
consulting the reference given by them (_Heming, Chart._ p. 262),
and was somewhat surprised to find the words "_Et bibliothecam, in
duobus partibus divisam_," the foundation of this pleasing anecdote.
"_Bibliothecam_," however, was the Latin for a Bible in the middle
ages: so that in fact the Lady Godiva gave them a Bible divided into
two parts, or volumes.

[297] Chalmer's Hist. of the Colleges of Oxford, p. 458. Wood's
Hist. Antiq. of Oxon, lib. ii. p. 48.

[298] Green's Hist. Worc. p. 79.

[299] Sir W. Dugdale's View of the Troubles in England, _Folio_, p.
557. We can easily credit the destruction of the organ and painted
windows, so obnoxious to Puritan piety; but with regard to the
_Bibles_, we may suspect the accuracy of the Royalist writer, col.
182.

[300] Symeon Dunelm. Tweyed. Script. x.

[301] Habingdon, MSS. Godwin de Praef, p. 231.

[302] Tindal's Hist. of Evesham, p. 248.

[303] _Ibid._ p. 250.

[304] MS. Harl., No. 3763, p. 180.

[305] MS. Cot. Vesp. b. xxiv. It is printed in Latin in _Nash's
Worcestershire_, vol. i. p. 419, and translated in _Tindal's Hist.
of Worcs._ p. 24, all of which I have used with _Dugdale's Monast._
vol. ii. p. 5.

[306] _MS. Cottonian Augustus II._ No. 11. "Ex his debet invenire
praecentor incaustum omnibus scripto